GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| microcosm | a little world |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |